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Q: Whose hat was taken by P, how and why? Four brothers go to a dance party. As the leave,each of the brother accidentally takes a hat belonging to another brother and the coat belonging to the third brother. M takes the court belonging to the brother whose hat is taken by P, while P's coat is taken by the brother who takes M's hat. S takes J's hat. Whose hat was taken by P?
( Answer is S )
What's the technique of solving this question?
Those "twists and turns", I don't get them. How can I put them to symbols or number so that I get it?

A: "Just" be systematic.
S takes J's hat, so takes P or M's coat. But P's coat was taken by someone who took M's hat, so can't have been taken by S; so by the previous fact, S takes M's coat.
So far, S takes J's hat and M's coat.
Consider J's coat, which cannot be taken by S or J so is taken by P or M. If M takes it, then J's hat is taken by P (by the first fact we were given) - but that's not allowed because we know J's hat is taken by S. So P must have taken J's coat.
Proceed in this vein. (I don't think I've made a mistake, but I was distracted about six distinct times while writing this.)

A: The trick is to use tables like the one below:

On the left are the brothers taking stuff. On the right are the brothers they are taking it from. We initially know that no brother takes their own hat or coat, so we fill in those cells with an "X". Now, the last clue ("S takes J's hat") is the most concrete, so we use that first:

Above we have filled in that S takes J's hat. When we know a cell is the correct choice, we can mark all other cells in that row and column with an "X". But we also know that if S took J's hat, he cannot also have taken J's coat, so we mark that cell with an "X".
Next, let's take the first clue, i.e. "M takes the coat belonging to the brother whose hat is taken by P". We see in the table that P could only have taken the hat of either M or S, so M could only have taken the coat of M or S. But M cannot take his own coat, so he must have taken the coat of S. And therefore P took the hat of S:

At this point we have actually already got the answer to the question of "whose hat was taken by P", without ever using the last clue! Still, let's continue. Notice that there are several rows and columns with only one free cell left. Those free cells must then be the answer and we can mechanically fill them in:

For completeness sake we can use the last clue to fill in the rest:

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Alt-J 'This is All Yours'
By Anna Dovre	/ In Blogs, Reviews	/ October 8, 2014
If you type the alt key followed by the letter J on an apple keyboard, what you get is this: ∆. Also known as delta, the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, ∆ is used in mathematics and science to denote change. And change is the best word to describe the newest album by British band Alt-J. This is All Yours, their second album, was released on September 22nd of this year, and went straight to number 1 on the UK's Official Albums Chart.
Change was already expected in January of this year, when Alt-J's bassist Gwil Sainsbury announced he would be leaving the band. It's hard to tell what kind of effect this change had on the band. They do take on a variety of new sounds in This is All Yours, and some of these changes may have been catalyzed by Sainsbury's departure, but I think we can credit most of Alt-J's change to their own organic musical development. This album depicts them caught in a limbo state, somewhere between the music of their debut album An Awesome Wave and a variety of new musical avenues– we get tastes of the band experimenting with different genres. "Left Hand Free," one of the singles released ahead of the album, goes for a rock feel, reminiscent of artists such as Jack White. Another song, "Warm Foothills," is a cutesy, carefree tune that seems pulled straight from the soundtrack of an indie romance film. The lyrics are made up of spliced-together bits from guest vocalists: Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes, Lianne La Havas, Sivu, and Marika Hackman. The song "Bloodflood" from An Awesome Wave gets a makeover in "Bloodflood, Pt. II," which retains much of the same soaring vocals and crunchy percussive beats that Alt-J is known for, but ends with expansive M83-esque strings.
This is All Yours, with such a magnanimous title, is actually more of a self-centered exploration into previously uncharted musical waters, a distracted odyssey for self-definition. As a result, the album doesn't have the polished wholeness of An Awesome Wave. But the songs, taken individually, provide some exciting, and occasionally magnificent, glimpses into Alt-J's potential musical future, whose only certainty is ∆.
Misterwives 'Reflections'
Be Frightened!
Young The Giant 'Mind Over Matter'
Tags: alt-J, CD Review, This Is All Yours


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A decree prohibiting the publication of any book contrary to statute, injunction, ordinance and letters patents, as well as any ordinance set down by the Company of Stationers. The formal protection of the Star Chamber was extended not only to books protected under royal printing privileges (see: uk_1566) but to books printed in contravention of the internal regulations of the Stationers' Company itself, further enhancing the significance of 'stationers' copyright'.
The commentary describes the background to the decree, in particular the religious controversies of the 1570s and 1580s, as well as the dissatisfaction within the general printing trade during this period at the manner in which a number of the printing privileges granted by Elizabeth resulted in the monopolistic control of commercially lucrative works within the hands of a few stationers only. The commentary also details the efforts of the dominant members of the Stationers' Company to influence the substance of the decree and further augment their control over the internal operation of the book trade.
As was the case with the Star Chamber Decree of 1566, two impulses underpinned the passing of the Star Chamber Decree of 1586. The first lay with Elizabeth (1533-1603) and the government's increasing concern over the proliferation of books which attacked or undermined the Queen and her religious settlement of 1559. The period following the 1566 Decree was a particularly turbulent time; religious controversy came in various guises. The late 1560s and early 1570s bore witness to the Vestiarian Controversy and the Puritan critique of the Elizabethan settlement most powerfully captured in two published Admonitions to Parliament in 1572. A decade later the major controversy centred around the challenge to the Anglican Church presented by the writings of the Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581), and the accompanying literature which this provoked. In 1582, a year after Campion's execution, the Rheims Testament, a Catholic translation of the Bible, was first published and, not surprisingly, was widely regarded as a serious assault upon the Protestant position. Suffice to note that of the eleven royal proclamations which Elizabeth issued throughout her long reign concerning works that she considered to be seditious, heretical or libellous in some regard, the majority (seven) were issued between 1570 and 1583. Indeed, as it seemed the usual mechanisms for controlling the content of the press were proving ineffective, the jurist William Lambard (1536-1601) was commissioned in 1577 to draft a specific act that might more effectively achieve that very goal. Lambard's suggestion, revised again in 1580, was to establish a licensing board of twelve individuals, comprising three ecclesiastics, the recorder of the city of London, four Readers of the Inns of Court, and four others. This of course would have shifted the control over the licensing of the press away from Elizabeth's High Commission and in particular the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London who had incrementally assumed the central role in licensing texts. The prelates were not, however, to be ousted so easily. Archbishop Whitgift (1530/31?-1604) responded by presenting a scheme to Elizabeth suggesting that licensing should be placed only in the hands of himself and the Bishop of London, a suggestion which ultimately found favour with the Queen.
The second impulse underscoring the 1586 Decree lay in the unrest within the trade that manifested itself in the 1570s and early 1580s. This unrest concerned the monopoly control over the printing of particular types of books in the hands of relatively few of the senior members of the Stationers' Company as a result of Elizabeth's prerogative grants. In 1577 for example, a time when there were close to 200 printers within the city of London, control of the most commercially lucrative texts, as well as particular classes of books, lay in the hands of no more than ten stationers, including John Jugge (d.1588) the Queen's Printer. Not surprisingly the dominance of the trade by this small handful of favoured subjects sat uneasily with the rest of the print trade. In August 1577 they complained that the privileges granted "will be the overthrowe of the Printers and Stationers within this Cittie ... [b]esides their wyves Children Apprentices and families, and thereby th[e] excessive prices of bookes preiudiciall to the state of the whole Realme besides the false printinge of the same". The unofficial leader of the unprivileged printers was John Wolfe (d.1601), who along with Roger Ward, William Holmes and John Charlewood (d.1593), led the attack on the privileged printers' publishing monopolies in the early 1580s, targeting works by Christopher Barker (1528/29-1599), who had replaced Jugge as Queen's Printer, as well as works owned by Francis Flower (the Latin grammar) and John Day (1521/22-1584) (the ABC and the Catechism).
Again, in 1582, in an appeal to the Privy Council, the disgruntled printers set out that the result of the privileges was "to bring vs our wyves and children into moste extreme mysery". In the same year, William Seres (the younger), who held the printing patent for all psalters, primers and prayer-books, both summarised and summarily dismissed the arguments of the journeymen printers. Noting that in reality the complainers were simply "desirous for their owne private comoditye", he continued that they, somewhat disingenuously, "pretend that in Iustice yt standeth with the best polliye of this realme that the printinge of all good and laufull bokes be at libertye for euery man to print without grauntinge or allowinge of any priviledge by the prynce to the contrary". To this, he restated the petitioners' legal argument: "[T]hat the privilege for sole printinge of all bokes is against the lawe and that her maiestie oughte not to graunte any suche". This argument, attacking as it did the very foundations of Elizabeth's prerogative powers, was highly controversial. Indeed, Wolfe himself had been committed to prison in 1582 for setting himself "against the Quenes hole prerogative touching printing", in asserting that "it was lawful for all men to print all lawfull bookes what commandement souever her Maiestie gaue to ye contrary".
A Commission of the Privy Council was appointed to look into the matter, and reported in July 1583, wherein the authority and legality of the printing privileges was upheld, subject to certain compromises being made on the part of the privileged stationers. In short, the patentees agreed to take steps to "releeve the poorer sorte", and in January 1584 a list of privileged works was drawn up "for the reliefe of ye poore of the saide Companie according to ye discretion of the Master, wardens, and assistants". As for Wolfe, he "acknowledged his error" in return for which he was admitted to the Company of Stationers and granted a share in Day's privilege concerning the ABC and the Catechism. The settlement cannot however have been entirely satisfactory to all of the printers. In November 1585, and again in February 1586, Francis Flower initiated actions in the Star Chamber, against Thomas Dunn and Robert Robinson, and Robert Bourne, respectively, for infringing against his privilege in the Grammar and the Accidence. It is in the answer of Robert Bourne, of 3 February 1586, that we find the most robust condemnation of, and challenge to, Elizabeth's prerogative grants. In the first place, Bourne set out that as a result of the privileges "there is almost no liberty lefte for printinge but for ballettes and toyes and such like, which might with better reason be prohibited then the rest, and which will not suffice to mayntayne the printers not pryveledged and their families ... with bread and water". He continued that the existence of such monopoly grants were also damaging to the state and the commonwealth in that they both encouraged price inflation as well as resulting in a poorer quality of printed materials. Finally, having heard it "credibly reported, that by the opynyon of diuers lerned in the lawes of this Realme, [that] such grauntes by Letters patentes are voide" he called for a trial and judgement upon the same "according to the ordinary course and rules of the common Lawes". The legal advice which Bourne had received may well have been right - as Patterson notes, at the start of the sixteenth century, "[t]he right of the king to grant printing patents seems to have been assumed without any question". The authority of the Tudor monarchs to grant such privileges had not yet been tested before the courts. However, neither would Bourne's appeal lead to an examination of the legality of the grants which Elizabeth had made, as four months after Bourne entered his answer, on 23 June 1586, the second Star Chamber Decree concerning printing was issued. With it the authority of the Queen to issue such privilege grants was re-affirmed, and a renewed institutional confidence as to the role and operation of the Stationers' Company in regulating the book trade was established.
There can be no doubt that the Company of Stationers sought to influence the nature and substance of the second Star Chamber Decree. In October 1584, the Wardens of the Company had been granted permission to spend money on procuring an Act "or any good aucthorytie" to shore up their commercial interests. Moreover, on 4 May 1586, they set out their arguments in favour of maintaining the printing privileges, in a petition to the Privy Council. Their petition reads almost as a rejoinder to Bourne's answer submitted to the Star Chamber just three months earlier. Should the privileges not be maintained, they argued, far from benefiting from a proliferation of cheaper books, the commonwealth would suffer through a lack of printed material in that "no bookes at all shoulde be printed ... for comonlie the first printer is at charge for the Authors paynes, and some other suche extraordinarie cost", whereas those coming later "commeth to the Copie gratis, and so maie he sell better cheaper then the first printer". More important than this argument as to the economic 'realities' of the book trade, however, they also asserted that the privileges were necessary in that "if every man maie print, that is so disposed, it may be a meanes, that heresies, treasons, and seditious Libelles shall be too often dispersed, whereas if onlie knowne men doo prynte this inconvenience is avoided". Unlike the situation with Elizabeth's Injunctions of 1559, wherein the stationers were simply required to "be obedient" thereto, with this petition the dominant forces within the trade began to strategically co-opt the interests and fears of the monarch in the pursuit of their own ends. Here, for the first time, the stationers hold themselves out as the guardians of the press, adopting a 'rhetoric of transgression' to secure their own commercial concerns as well as ensuring a more effective means of regulating their particular industry.
While there may have been two clear impulses which influenced the timing and substance of the 1586 Decree, most commentators are in agreement that primarily it represented a major step forward for the Stationers in terms of cementing their control over the internal operation of the book trade. As Blagden notes: "The new Decree of 1586 was much more explicit and was designed as a set of ordinances by which all members of the trade, whatever their places of business, were in future to be governed ... it was a considerable advance on the powers achieved by the Charter and by the Company's own ordinances of 1562". Everyone who kept a press, or who intended to establish one thereafter, had to register it with the Master and Wardens of the Company, and no presses were to be set up outside the City of London (other than in Oxford and Cambridge). No press established within the six months prior to the Decree was allowed to be used "tyll the excessiue multitude of Prynters hauinge presses already sett vp, be abated, diminished, and by death gyvinge over, or otherwise brought to so small a number of maisters or owners of pryntinge houses ... as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the tyme being shall therevpon thinck requisite and convenient for the good service of the Realme". In addition, as another measure for curbing the number of active printers, limits were introduced as to the number of apprentices which each member of the Company could employ. The search and seizure powers of the Company Wardens were also extended to include, not just the confiscation of offending books, but also "all presses, letters, and other pryntinge instruments sett vp, vsed or employed" in the printing of the same. These were to be "defaced, melted, sawed in peeces, broken, or battered at the smythes forge" before being returned to the owners thereof. Finally, the licensing provision from 1566 was altered in two significant respects. In the first place, all works were to be "first seen and pervsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and [the] Bishop of London", in accordance with the suggestion which Archbishop Whitgift himself had put to Elizabeth. Second, the licensing provision rehearsed the prohibition on printing books that might contravene any statute, injunction, prohibition or letters patent, as had been the case with the 1566 Decree; significantly, however, it also now extended to any printing "contrary to any allowed ordynaunce sett Downe for the good governaunce of the Company of Staconers within the Cyttie of London". It was no longer just those who printed in contravention of Elizabeth's printing privileges that could be held accountable before the Star Chamber, but anyone who infringed against the ordinances of the Company, including those underpinning the concept of 'stationers' copyright'. In short, the manner in which the Company regulated the internal workings of the book trade now attracted the sanction of the state as well.
 J. Field and T. Wilcox, An Admonition to the Parliament (London: n.p., 1572); T. Cartwright, A Second Admonition to the Parliament (London: n.p., 1572). See P. Milward, Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age: A Survey of Printed Sources (London: The Scholar Press, 1977), 25-38.
 Milward, 54-64; see also F.S. Siebert, Freedom of the Press in England, 1476-1776 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965), 95-100.
 Campion was arrested in the summer of 1581, tried and then executed in December of the same year.
 Proclamations were issued in 1570, June 1573, September 1573, 1576, 1579, 1580 and 1583.
 This is evidenced by the fact that in the early 1580s fewer and fewer books were being entered on the Company Register. As Greg notes, in 1585-86, only 30 works were entered on the Register, by comparison with the yearly average of 147 entries between 1576 and 1640; W.W. Greg, "Entrance, Licence, and Publication", The Library, 4th ser., 25 (1944): 1-22 (2). Moreover, Clegg notes that, in 1585, only 13 percent of those works actually entered on the Register were identified as having been authorised by an official licensor; Cyndia Susan Clegg, Press Censorship in Jacobean England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 58.
 See E. Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: 1875-94), 2: 751-53.
 Feather suggests that this was in fact the singular reason behind the framing of the Star Chamber Decree 1586; John Feather, A History of British Publishing (London & New York: Routledge, 1988), 37. However it seems clear that Elizabeth's concern with controversial religious texts also played a considerable role in determining the timing and the substance of the Decree.
 The griefes of the printers glasse sellers and Cutlers sustained by reason of privileges granted to privatt persons, August 1577, Arber, 1: 111. The petitioners, in this document, estimate that around 175 printers were affected by the printing privileges which Elizabeth had granted to a handful of favoured stationers.
 The petitioners list the privileges as follows: John Jugge held the monopoly on all official documentation, as well as bibles and testaments; Richard Tottell's privilege concerned law books; John Day held the privilege for printing the ABC and the Catechism; James Roberts and Richard Watkins were solely entitled to print all almanacks and prognostications; Thomas Marshe and Thomas Vautrollier had been granted privileges concerning various Latin school books; William Byrde's privilege covered all music books as well as the printing of ruled paper; William Seres held the privilege for all psalters, primers, and prayer books; and, Francis Flower had been granted a privilege over the Grammar; ibid.
 For an account of Wolfe's role in the battle with the privileged printers, see Joseph Loewenstein, The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 30-38; see also Siebert, 74-75, 92-93, and C.B. Judge, Elizabethan Book Pirates (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934), 29-44. On Wolfe's career in general see Harry R. Hoppe, "John Wolfe, Printer and Publisher", The Library, 4th Ser., 14 (1933): 241-88.
 To the righte Honourable the Lordes of her Majesties moste honourable pryvie counsaile, Sept./Oct. 1582, Arber, 2: 770.
 To the right honourable the lord high Treasurer of England [William Seres to Lord Burghley], Oct. 1582, Arber, 2: 771. The most robust statement of this argument came in the Star Chamber case of Flower v. Bourne and Others (1586), Arber, 2: 800-805.
 Notes or Articles of the insolent and contemptuous behauiour of John Wolf Printer and his Confæderat[e]s, March 1583, Arber, 2: 781.
 The Final Report of the Augmented Commission from the Privy Council on the Controversy in the Stationers' Company, 18 July 1583, Arber, 2: 783-785, 784.
 A List of Books presented by the Patentees for the use of the poor of the Stationers Company, 8 Jan. 1584, Arber, 2: 786-89.
 The Final Report of the Augmented Commission from the Privy Council on the Controversy in the Stationers' Company, 18 July 1583, Arber, 2: 783-785, 784. Wolfe had originally been apprenticed to John Day in 1562 for ten years, but after serving only seven, had travelled abroad to study printing in both Germany and Italy; see Siebert, 92.
 Flower v. Dunn and Robinson (1585), Arber, 2: 794-800; Flower v. Bourne and Others (1586), Arber, 2: 800-805. In general see Judge, 79-89; of Flower and his patent Judge writes: "This privilege had been a source of discontent to the poorer printers ever since it was granted, for Flower had no connection at all with the printing trade; he was merely a gentleman who farmed out his patent for £100 a year, and who tool no interest in the well-being of the company"; ibid., 79-80.
 The joint and seuerall answers of Robert Bourne, Arber, 2: 802-804, 802.
 Ibid. Robert Robinson, in the other action initiated by Flower, sought to challenge the printing privileges, albeit in different terms, in observing that as to the "force and validitye of the said Letters patentes ... he this Defendatn humbly reserueth his the consideration thereof vnto this honourable courte, verily thinking how farre soeuer her maiesties prerogative may extend in this behalfe, yet yat her hinges mynde or pleasure is not yat the private commoditye and gayne of a fewe particular persons, should be hurtfull to the common wealthe, or cawse the Decaye and vndoing of a greate number of her poore and faithfull subiectes brought vp in this trade and facultie of pryntinge"; The Annswear of Robert Robinson, 10 Nov. 1585, Arber, 2: 796-97.
 L.R. Patterson, Copyright in Historical Perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1968), 80.
 See C. Blagden, "Book Trade Control in 1566", The Library, 5th Ser., 13 (1958): 287-92 (292); see also Siebert, 61.
 The Arguments of the Patentees in favour of Privileges for Books, 4 May 1586, Arber, 2: 804-805.
 Ibid., 805. They continue: "Besides the Seconde printer maie better the first ympression either by notes, tables, difference in paper or volume (as it is easier to amende then first to invent) which will also hinder the sale of the firste printers bookes to his vtter vndoing"; ibid.
 Arber, 1: xxxix; see: uk_1559.
 C. Blagden, The Stationers' Company: A History, 1403-1959 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960), 71. Clegg writes of the 1586 Decree in the following terms: "A genuine triumph for the Stationers' Company and the privileged printers, the 1586 Decree was an extraordinarily conservative document in the sense that it affirmed old practices. It unequivocally upheld the rights and prerogatives of the Company and the privileged printers in the face of recent challenges and sought to ensure both adequate work and adequate employment within the Company. In so doing, it significantly strengthened the Stationers as an institution"; Clegg, 26-27.
 Ordinance 8; see also Ordinance 9 which limited the printers at Oxford and Cambridge to one apprentice each.
 Ordinance 4. Books of common law were to be licensed by the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron, or any two of them; ibid.
 In practice the task of ecclesiastical licensing was delegated to subordinate clergy; see Siebert, 62, and Clegg, 27-32.


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Q: delayed_jobs error, undefined method `email' for nil:NilClass the gem delayed_jobs works perfectly in development enviroment. But in production, it doesnot work. It throws the following error in the logs
Am using this delayed_job to send emails to users
I, [2013-11-20T13:55:28.418252 #31220]  INFO -- : 2013-11-20T13:55:28+0000:
[Worker(delayed_job host:li483-234 pid:31220)] 1 jobs processed at 77.3979 j/s, 1 failed
I, [2013-11-20T14:05:48.680718 #31220]  INFO -- : 2013-11-20T14:05:48+0000: [Worker(delayed_job host:li483-234 pid:31220)] Job Class#receive_msg (id=1) RUNNING
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any clues?

A: I found the answer
in config/application.rb place this on top
require 'yaml'

YAML::ENGINE.yamler = 'psych'
restart server and RAILS_ENV=production bin/delayed_job start


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12. Juror Twelve is in advertising, and cannot conceive of people on any level other than images.
9. What is the cause of Three's anger toward all young men?
His anger toward his own son seems to be why he feels as he does. His son, who was beaten by his father when he was young, knocked his father down as a teenager. Then he ran away from home and has not seen his father since.
10. What does Ten's following comment reveal about himself? "How can you believe him, knowing what he is? I lived among 'em all my life. You can't believe a word they say."
Clearly he is a very prejudiced person. He distrusts a whole race or class of people based on very limited exposure.
11. Juror Eight says he had a peculiar feeling about this trial. What does he think was wrong?
Eight feels the defense counsel did not conduct a thorough cross-examination, and many questions were left unasked.
12. The foreman asks the guard to bring in the switchblade knife. Why?
Juror Four says he feels that the jurors have a right to see the exhibits in evidence.
13. Juror Four questions the logic of Eight's premise that the boy did lose the knife. What is his sarcastic question to Eight?
Four wants Eight to explain if he thinks someone else found the knife and stabbed the boy's father to be amusing.
14. What dramatic climax occurs toward the end of Act I?
Juror Eight jabs a knife into the wall. The knife is identical to the murder weapon.
15. What proposal does Juror Eight make at end of the
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Film Analysis: Twelve Angry Men
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The jurors are transformed by the process of deliberating. Eleven men voted guilty because of their prejudices, fears, laziness and insecurities, but they are eventually persuaded by reason to give up these limiting beliefs, to see the potential in the facts, and to find justice. The critical turning points in the jury
1951, Reginald Rose, a thirty-one-year-old army veteran published his second, and most prominent dramatic work entitled Twelve Angry Men. This play is now admired as a momentous, eloquent and critical examination of the United States jury system. Twelve Angry Men examines key courtroom themes including civil duty and reasonable doubt. Through the voice of these twelve men, the audience must ask themselves imperative questions regarding the American court system, moral responsibility and the role
Reginald Rose and depicts a story about twelve jurors trying to determine if a young boy is found guilty of killing his father. The play starts out in the courtroom where the judge is giving instructions to the jurors on the murder case. It is stated that if the young man is found guilty, he will be charged with a mandatory sentence of the death penalty. It is now up to the twelve men to determine if this young man should be sentenced to death. The twelve men then file into the jury room and sit
Twelve Angry Men By Reginald Rose's 'Twelve Angry Men'
Twelve Angry Men is a drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial that was later turned into a movie. The movie shows the deliberations of a homicide trial in New York City in 19157. At the beginning of the movie eleven of the twelve jurors decided the boy on trial as being guilty. The one man, juror number eight, that did not agree that the boy was guilty felt that he needed to be sure without a doubt that the boy killed his father before sentencing him to the death penalty
Twelve angry men essay 'Twelve angry men' shows that personal experience is the strongest factor influencing human decision-making processes.' Discuss Twelve angry men by Reginald Rose is an intriguing play that explores the idea of personal experience affecting ones decision. Indeed Rose shows that decision-making is based on personal experiences. This is evident in the play when the 3rd Juror's personal experience with his own son influences his decision and as a result he votes for guilty
Does Twelve Angry Men show that prejudice can obscure the truth? In the play Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose shows that prejudices can prevent jurors from seeing the truth. This is evident throughout the play as juror 10 blinded to the facts because prejudice clouds his judgement. However, besides prejudice, Rose also show personal bias, ignorance and a weak characteristic can take away jurors' abilities to see the truth. For instance, juror 3's bad relationship with his son in the past and juror7's
Critical Analysis Of Twelve Angry Men In Twelve Angry Men
The film Twelve Angry Men portrayed the story about twelve jurors with completely different attitudes, personalities, emotions and approaches in judging a homicide case. These attributes had affected them to deliberate the case that they had faced with a "grave responsibility" so a unanimous verdict needed to be achieved. The main idea of this movie was to display and determine if these men were able to act as a team and analyzed whether they were practicing the group dynamics as they weighed testimony
Twelve Angry Men : The Character Analysis Of Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a play that has been written down and put into a book format, for the enjoyment of a wider audience. The play involves a jury in which one juror doesn't agree with the rest over the verdict of the case that they all witnessed take place in the court. After much argument, hostility, and anger, all of the jurors change their vote from "guilty" to "not guilty." This all happened through the strong efforts of juror #8 in which he got to the bottom of the logical facts of the case
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Patrick Sharp's overtime goal lifts Blackhawks over Stars
foxsports Jan 4, 2015 at 11:54p ET
Blackhawks left wing Patrick Sharp (10) celebrates after scoring in overtime against the Stars.
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The Chicago Blackhawks seemed a step behind the streaking Dallas Stars much of Sunday night before finding a way to come out ahead.
Patrick Sharp scored 1:17 into overtime to give Chicago a 5-4 win that snapped the Stars' four-game winning streak.
"Probably not our best team game in a while," Sharp said, "but to come back and win against a division rival, it definitely feels good."
Sharp drove past Jason Spezza down the slot, took Duncan Keith's feed from the left point and beat Kari Lehtonen with a shot that slipped between the goalie's body and his blocker.
That was the only time the Blackhawks led in the contest as Chicago overcame four-one goal deficits and some uncharacteristic defensive breakdowns.
"We can point the finger at ourselves for allowing those deficits in the first place," Sharp said. "A couple mistakes by us."
Following a 3-2 defeat in Washington to the Capitals in the Winter Classic on Thursday, the Blackhawks appeared on their way to losing a second straight game for only the third time this season.
But Chicago's Brad Richards fooled Lehtonen with an improbable sharp-angle shot with 3:57 left in the third period to tie it at 4 and set up overtime. Richards whipped the puck from the goal line at the left boards and it slipped between Lehtonen's elbow and the goalpost.
"I was hoping for a rebound or something crazy to happen," Richards said. "And that went in."
The Blackhawks, 14-3-1 in their last 18, ultimately got the bounces they needed, even if they weren't firing on all cylinders.
"We just didn't quite have a great feeling," Richards said. "Something was just a little off. We stayed with it. You always know you're going to get a big play out of someone on this team."
Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane and Bryan Bickell also scored for the Blackhawks.
Erik Cole had two goals and an assist for the Stars. Jamie Benn and his brother, Jordie, also scored for Dallas.
"I thought we deserved better, and 5-on-5 I thought we had the edge in the game," Dallas coach Lindy Ruff said. "I thought the last 40 minutes, our pace was better than theirs.
"Against their speed, I thought we did a good job."
Even with the loss, the Stars are 8-1-1 in their last 10.
"We're playing pretty solid right now," said Dallas' Alex Goligoski, who had two assists. "Just have to find better ways to lock those down."
Lehtonen made 33 saves, while Chicago's Corey Crawford blocked 30 shots.
Blackhawks top prospect, forward Teuvo Teravainen, played his first game of the season.
The 20-year-old was recalled from Rockford of the AHL after forward Kris Versteeg suffered a left hand injury when he was hit by a shot in Thursday's Winter Classic in Washington. Versteeg is expected to be out for "about a month," according to coach Joel Quenneville.
Jamie Benn opened the scoring 3:59 in when he buried a rebound from the edge of left circle into an open net. Crawford had to react quickly to make a pad save on Tyler Seguin's initial deflected shot from 20 feet out in slot, and wasn't able to recover.
Saad muscled to the net, fought off Stars defenseman Trevor Daly and directed in Jonathan Toews' centering pass 1:15 later to tie it at 1.
Defensive breakdowns lead to a scoring flurry early in the second.
Jordie Benn, a defenseman, trailed into the slot and scored his first goal of the season 2:15 into the period to complete a slick three-way passing play with Cole and Ales Hemsky to put Dallas ahead 2-1. No Blackhawks forwards backchecked on the Stars' rush.
Kane tied it at 2 at 3:58 to finish a 2-on-1 with Sharp, who created the odd-man break when he blew around Jordie Benn at the Dallas blue line.
Cole restored the Stars' lead at 3-2 just 45 seconds later when he was left wide open at the side of the net and lifted in a high shot.
Bickell's power-play tip-in with 1:55 left in the second tied it 3-all. Cole's second goal of the game, on a mid-air deflection of Goligoski's floating feed from the left point 4:05 into the third period, put Dallas back ahead, 4-3.
NOTES: Versteeg has nine goals and 18 assists in 34 games after fully recovering from knee surgery in March 2013. He missed the first four games of this season with an unrelated lower-body injury. . Dallas C Shawn Horcoff missed his third game with an illness and is on IR. He eligible to return starting Tuesday. . Stars D David Schlemko, claimed from Arizona on waivers, on Saturday, was with the team, but did not dress.


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At the confluence of the majestic Ottawa, Rideau and Gatineau rivers stands Ottawa, Canada's capital city and political nerve center. Canada's seat of power is also a thriving business and technology hub and is home to several major national institutions and numerous foreign embassies.
This incredibly cosmopolitan city offers the best of urban living and rural comfort. Ottawa's downtown center is hugged by a latticework of cozy neighborhoods that quickly give way to picturesque farmland and fields. It is not surprising that Mercer recently ranked it the second-nicest city in the Americas. Ottawa is also officially one of the world's cleanest cities.
The city is characterized by water. From the stunning Rideau falls to the Rideau Canal which, in winter, freezes over to become the world's longest skate way, the city's picturesque waterways offer an abundance of activities all year long.
Ottawa prides itself on being a global center of learning, and the caliber of its schools, colleges and universities is testimony to that. Children are primarily offered the choice of an English, French, or bilingual (English-French) education, while a host of other foreign language schools can be found in this multicultural city.
In recent years Ottawa's gastronomic scene has really kicked off; these days you can find anything from oyster bars to burger bars, Vietnamese food to French forestière. The real clincher is that Ottawa's culinary community has collectively eschewed food miles in favour of sourcing locally. The aptly named 'Savour Ottawa' initiative is providing a huge boost to local farmers and the local economy.
Life in Ottawa offers the whole spectrum: whether you crave rural serenity, urban vibes, pedestrianized shopping districts, or the passion of politics, this city has it all.
What is special or unique about your city?
Ottawa is one the most beautiful G8 capitals in the world. It is highly ranked in terms of quality of life, based on many factors, including low crime rates, environmental cleanliness, public services, political stability, and socio-economic conditions. Being the capital city of Canada, Ottawa is home to 126 embassies and High Commissions from around the world.
With a population of over 1.2 million people, Ottawa ranks as the fourth-largest urban area in Canada.
Ottawa is rich in culture and home to:
Twelve national museums devoted to Canadian art, nature, science and technology, aviation and war and civilization
The Byward Market -- covering an area of four square city blocks is one of Canada's oldest and largest public markets, where you'll find cafes, boutiques, restaurants, pubs, and aesthetic salons
National Arts Centre -- the only multidisciplinary, bilingual performing arts centre in North America
Rideau Canal -- designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, the canal becomes the longest outdoor skating rink in the world in the winter, and can be enjoyed by boat in the summer. There are recreational paths lining the canal that are enjoyed by walkers, joggers and cyclists.
What are a newcomer's first impressions of your city?
Ottawa is a bright and beautiful city that places high priority on green spaces, parklands and trails. While it is large enough to support the finest amenities, such as world-class entertainment venues and shopping districts, Ottawa retains the warmth and charm of a quaint European city.
Are these impressions likely to change?
No; the character of the city is likely to change.
What is the local language?
The primary language in Ottawa is English (50 per cent) followed by Canada's other official language, French (32 per cent). There are also a host of other languages spoken including a significant amount of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic. Terms that are used commonly in Ottawa are Anglophone and Francophone. An Anglophone is a predominately English-speaking person, whereas a Francophone is predominately French speaking.
How easily could I live in this city without knowing this language?
Without working knowledge of English or French, a newcomer may face some difficulty. With help from English speakers, a person may be able to get by in their native tongue. Street signs are in both English and French.
What are good things to remember in order to avoid offending the other residents of this city?
The best way to avoid offending residents of Ottawa is to abide by the Canadian Human Rights Code and Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. These are the national and provincial laws that provide everyone with equal rights and opportunities in specific areas such as jobs, housing and services. And, of course, just keep your eyes open -- you can learn most of what you need to know about local etiquette by just watching it in action.
Some other tips to avoid offending residents of Ottawa are:
Canadians usually hope that visitors will recognize how different their country is from the United States.
Canadians quickly move to a first-name basis, although you should wait until you have been invited to do so.
The order for Canadian names is first name, middle name and last name.
A firm handshake makes a very good first impression.
Keep a distance of several feet when talking to another person.
Do not show emotion in public.
It is okay to use the "O.K." sign and the "thumbs up" sign, but the "V" sign with the palm inward and pointing are considered offensive.
Holding doors open for the person behind you is appreciated and often expected.
Being punctual should be a priority especially for business-related meetings. However, being 15 minutes late for an evening social engagement is acceptable.
Some professions allow for casual dress, but if you are not sure, dress on the formal side.
Canadians in general do not wear any type of scent in a business setting. Perfume, aftershave and heavily scented personal care products such as shampoo and hairspray should be avoided.
It is considered rude to speak in a foreign language in the presence of others who don't understand what is being said.
If you see someone you know at a distance, a wave is an appropriate acknowledgement.
People using the ATM machines expect the next person waiting in line to stand a few feet behind them.
Restaurants in Canada often have smoking and non-smoking sections, although rules on smoking are becoming more intense. In an increasing number of Canadian communities, however, there are bylaws in effect prohibiting smoking in restaurants and even bars. With the exception of the streets, you will find that smoking is restricted in most public places. In private homes, you should always ask permission from your host to smoke.
How might the local weather affect my daily life?
Most of Canada has four distinct seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Canada measures temperature using the Celsius thermometer expressed as degrees Celsius (C). The best way to cope with Canada's changing weather is to be prepared. Read or listen to weather reports in newspapers or on the radio and television. If you have cable television, you may have a channel that broadcasts weather information 24 hours per day.
Ottawa's four seasons are welcomed and are an integral part of living in the city with numerous recreational events and festivals throughout the year.
Spring (March 21 to June 20) is cool and sunny. Early spring can still bring snow and temperatures below freezing, especially at night, but by late spring temperatures can reach the mid-20s with occasional rain causing the flowers to bloom.
Summer (June 21 to September 20) is wonderfully warm and can be swelteringly hot during heat waves. Temperatures hover in the mid- to high-20sC (68F) during the day and at night, but can reach high 30sC during heat waves.
Autumn (September 21 to December 20) is when green leaves on trees turn into luscious reds, oranges, yellows and browns before falling to the ground. The cool, crisp air combined with the colors is what makes fall breathtakingly beautiful. Temperatures can range from high 20s at the beginning of the season to just above freezing by the end.
Winter (December 21 to March 20) in Ottawa is cold. Temperatures usually stay below freezing. The wind-chill temperature tells you how cold the air feels when it is windy. Ottawa tends to get quite a bit of snow, and during storms, this can make travelling difficult. The city is well prepared for this however and in most cases, business continues as usual.
Is there anything else I should know about the overall character of your city or its people?
Residents of Ottawa take a lot of pride in the appearance and cleanliness of their city.
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Ariel Sharon was an Israeli politician and general who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel.
He was born on Monday February 27th 1928, in Kfar Malal, Israel.
Ariel Sharon likes to live a stable, well organized life. He dislikes sudden changes. Ariel prefers orderliness in all things. He has a systematic mind that is reflected in everything he does. Sharon can establish and maintain a routine. He is exacting with details and quite thorough.
Ariel Sharon likes to carefully analyze a problem and then tackle it in a logical and practical approach. He wants to be dependable, a rock of strength and an example of discipline for others.
Work is central to Ariel's life, but he may have a tendency to overdo it; Sharon can easily become a workaholic if he is not careful. He has a great deal of energy and can accomplish a lot.
Ariel Sharon wants a family and he is a good parent. He may carry the discipline and the need for orderliness too far, especially in his family, making children and spouse feel oppressed and limited. Flexibility is Sharon's key to harmony and balance in life. For him, structure is more important than freedom, which Ariel tends to interpret as chaos. But others do not have Ariel Sharon's need for well defined systems, in fact, they may feel deeply inhibited and uncomfortable with it. The peace he gets from orderliness may represent a prison to someone else.
Sharon needs and wants much love, but he is not very demonstrative. He can be a little rigid and stubborn.
Ariel Sharon can be very determined and tenacious. He is the bedrock of any enterprise. He has the courage to go into the nitty gritty of a problem and come up with a solution. Ariel Sharon must try not to lose sight of the larger picture and dream while he plumbs the depths of the bottom line.
Ariel Sharon's Soul Urge number represents his inner self. The Soul Urge number, also called Heart's Desire, shows Ariel's underlying urge - his true motivation.
It reveals the general intention behind many of Sharon's actions. Consequently, it dramatically influences the choices Ariel Sharon makes in life.
Read more about our interpretation of Ariel Sharon's soul urge (heart's desire) number . . .


Argentinian beauty Sabrina Ioffreda gets into the mood for the festive party season, pulling an all-nighter for Dazed & Confused's December 2013 issue. The aptly titled editorial "Night Shift" shot by photographer Pierre Debusschere features Ioffreda hitting the dance floor, taking a breather on neon lit stairs, and facing the harsh reality of the morning after. Stylist Robbie Spencer finds inspiration in high street fashion and luxury brands mixing Miu Miu, Fendi, Saint Laurent, Prada, and Dior with Top Shop, Fred Perry, Religion, and 7 for all Mankind, to assemble ensembles in keeping with Ioffreda's rough around the edges blue chip appeal. Ioffreda first caught IMA's eye with her exquisite bee-stung lips and cool androgyny at Proenza Schouler before blitzing a trail through the Spring/Summer 2014 season with captivating appearances at Marc Jacobs, Giles, Prada, Jil Sander, Emilio Pucci, Céline, Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, and Louis Vuitton amongst others. The San Isidro native's imposing 179 cm frame, womanly elegance, and aspirational beauty is the stuff made of modelling legends. Ioffreda's uncompromising in your face beauty is reminiscent of model as muses Jamie Bochert and Natasa Vojnovic. Ioffreda will no doubt provide plenty of inspiration for designers, stylists and photographers in the seasons ahead.


Funerals can be very expensive here in Marietta, Georgia. Many families pay up to $10,000 (and oftentimes more) for their loved one's funeral. Hoping to relieve family members from the stress of this financial burden, the idea of paying for funeral expenses in advance using a prepaid funeral contract is growing in popularity. As with any financial decision, you should carefully consider the pros and cons of this investment.
Your family does not have to deal with the emotional burden of planning your funeral.
Your family has financial help, and sometimes full payment of your funeral costs.
Many times you can lock-in the cost of your funeral at today's price rather than a higher price in the future when the funeral is held.
You can often pay in installments.
The funeral home could go out of business.
You may not be able to get a refund if you change your mind.
You may not be earning interest on the money you invest.
You could move or die away from home and your contract may not be transferable.
Before you sign on the bottom line, be sure to talk to a qualified will and estate attorney here in Marietta GA. There may be safer ways to set aside or invest money that will accomplish your goal of taking care of your final arrangements and decreasing the stress on your family. The bottom line is that it is critical to gather as much information as possible before tying up your money with a local funeral home.
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Zaragoza–Delicias station is a railway station located in the city of Zaragoza in Aragon, Spain. The station opened on 7 May 2003, and the Central Bus Station Zaragoza opened on 5 May 2007, providing a wide intermodality to passengers. It is served by the AVE high-speed trains between Madrid and Barcelona and onwards to Figueres.

The building was designed by Carlos Ferrater and José María Valero.

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School district forced to cut routes, change start times due to shortage of bus drivers
By Tatevik Aprikyan
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- A national school bus driver shortage is affecting local districts in Western Washington.
The Lake Washington School District says they've had last-minute bus driver resignations just before school started and they've had to cut routes and change start times to preschools.
Parents who have children in preschool say they've been left scrambling to make changes to routines that were planned out months in advance.
Bus shortage affects families
Jumping on the trampoline with her family, stay at home mom Carissa Robinson says it's moments like this that are a break from her days.
"We do about 60 miles a day to get him where he needs to be," Robinson says of her 4-year-old son, Caleb, who has a rare genetic disorder and autism requiring hours of daily therapy.
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"It went from starting at 8:30 a.m. to starting at 10 a.m. and not getting out until 12:30 p.m.," said Robinson.
She says the 90-minute shift for her son's therapy schedule "rocks our whole reality."
Robinson says the change has impacted her fall schedule that has been filled with critical appointments for Caleb.
"We have the big bones of it worked out but we had to drop three therapists that we've seen for years," says Robinson.
Robinson says she understands the district's problem but feels frustrated with such late communication about preschool that is critical for her child.
"He loves school and we have the most phenomenal teachers, and it's what's heartbreaking about this, he's grown tremendously in the last year he's been in this program, but this left us making a choice of private therapy or sending him to school," said Robinson. "We're having to fight for something that I think in their eyes was the lesser of evils to impact," said Robinson.
Beth Pendergrass with the Lake Washington School District says it was not an easy decision.
"It wasn't something anyone took lightly, or anyone wanted to do, it had to be done," said Pendergrass.
She says this year's bus driver shortage is the worst they've seen, and that not only did it affect start times but the ripple effect meant the district had to cut bus routes from 101 to 87.
Pendergrass says a better economy makes recruiting drivers tougher and last-minute resignations created a dire situation.
"Those last-minute resignations, you get to that point that there are no other options. It wasn't about waiting for the end of the summer, it was literally about that emergency situation that people are resigning at that last minute and you can't fill those positions, we need to transport students that qualify for bus transportation," said Pendergrass.
Robinson says she doesn't know what the solution is, but better communication is a good place to start.
"It just would've given us some heads-up to retain therapist that built up years of rapport with our kids," said Robinson.
The Lake Washington School District says they've heard from frustrated parents and advise that parents should contact the special services department to work with the district on each family's needs to accommodate changes in start times.
The district is also still hiring for those open bus driver positions.
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I don't know about you guys, but I usually have a hard time winding down from a busy work day. Too many things buzzing around my head by the time I get ready to lay my head down in my bed. Sitting at a desk can make your back and shoulders tense. Not to mention the stress on your hips and back from sitting in a car, bus or train on the way to and from your job. The rushing about. The commute. The endless list of things to get done. Add some kids into the mix and you might as well multiply your stress levels by two. By the time that you get home, how can you relax your body and mind to get a peaceful nights rest?
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Is the United Nations Still Relevant at 75?
Seventy-five years ago, delegates from 50 countries met in San Francisco to sign the UN Charter. Initially, the purpose of the United Nations was to maintain peace and security through international cooperation and to essentially prevent another world war. Today's UN has 193 member countries and is facing a time of uncertainty and open disdain from US President Donald Trump, who has cut funding to the world body and declared, "The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots." On this week's episode, we look at the UN's achievements, its shortcomings and what the future holds for international cooperation with journalist James Traub. Then Ray Suarez talks with former Prime Minister of Canada The Rt. Hon Kim Campbell and former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge Castañeda about how the United States is viewed by its neighbors.
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Point Richmond Music Festival holds its final concert this season
Leah Rosenbaum on September 27, 2016
At the annual Point Richmond Music Festival, which held its final concert of the season last Friday, neighbors greeted each other with handshakes and hugs. Richmond residents, including Mayor Tom Butt, drank salt-rimmed margaritas as lively music played in the background and children ran up and down Park Place, closed off for the event.
Andrew Butt, the Point Richmond Music Festival board president and the mayor's oldest son, said his father was one of the many Point Richmond community members who were in favor of starting the festival 16 years ago.
"We thought we needed to have something to bring the town together," said Andrew Butt. "Something fun for people to do that would kind of enliven the town here and get people to come out and meet and greet each other and have fun."
Though the concert was created many years ago, the mini-street festival is still evolving. New this year: three local food trucks, serving up tacos, Cajun bites, and Filipino street food.
Another change? The absence of any Chevron logos. About two years ago, said Butt, the festival board decided to end the refinery's participation. "We all feel pretty good about it," he said.
For Matt Jaffe, lead singer, guitar player, and songwriter for Matt Jaffe and the Distractions, one of the two bands that played at Friday's festival, playing in Point Richmond felt relaxed and fun.
"I think live music is really important," said the Bay Area-based musician, "and it's great when it gets civic sponsorship."
Many Point Richmond residents agree.
"I like the community coming together," said Will Davis, who lives right around the block from where the festival takes place. "I like the fact that it actually represents Richmond as a whole, because Point Richmond tends to be insular as a community."
That was one of the reasons, said Butt, that admission to the street concert has always been free, supported by sponsors, donations and volunteers. "We wanted it to really be open to everybody and not have any kind of barriers to attendance," he said.
ExtraLarge also played at last week's festival. The festival organized five concert events this summer, featuring music ranging from rock to zydeco.
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"The absence of any Chevron logos…We all feel pretty good about it.."
Careful what you wish for. Soon enough Chevron will relocate to Houston leaving Richmond in a deeper financial hole than ever, Citizens will look back with nostalgia at the good old days when there was a major employer in town paying taxes.


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This female bobcat was tagged and outfitted with a GPS collar, which she'll wear for 300 days. (Patrick Skahill/CPR)
Inside a lab in northwest Connecticut is a bobcat. Its bright eyes and black-tufted ears are separated from me only by the metal grill of a large carrier. She's sleepy, but waking up.
That morning, Jason Hawley, a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, got a phone call from a coyote trapper who'd accidently caught this bobcat.
Lately, Hawley has been putting the word out to trappers: If you catch a bobcat, don't release it. Instead, call his team.
This female bobcat was captured in Lebanon, Conn. Biologists at the state are trying to get a better sense as to where these wild cats are and what they're doing. (Patrick Skahill/CPR)
"We sent two people over to Lebanon. They drugged the cat. Tranquilized it. Put it in our carrier that we use," Hawley said. "They stay pretty calm in there."
Hawley is with the Connecticut Bobcat Project. It's a study tracking bobcats all over the state.
As bobcats return to New England following decades of conservation and forest regrowth, biologists want to learn more about what these mysterious wild cats are up to.
So using tools like GPS collars, Hawley and his team are examining bobcat diets and fertility rates, trying to unravel how the cats act in the wild, and increasingly, in our backyard.
"Are bobcats in more urban areas using different habitat? Or different resources?" Hawley said, comparing the city cats to their more rural counterparts. "Are they using it at different times of the day? Are they moving at different times?"
Bobcats are about two-to-three times the size of the average house cat. These wild cats are elusive and quick, and as populations have gone up, Hawley said lots of people confuse them with mountain lions.
"They see a wild cat that's larger than their house cat and they don't know the difference," Hawley said. "Very often when you get a glimpse of a bobcat, it's running across the road in front of you."
Jason Hawley works on a bobcat in a lab at Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area in Burlington, Conn. After some collaring and sampling work, the cat was released. (Patrick Skahill/CPR)
In addition to its tufted ears, one of the bobcat's differentiating features is its short "bobbed" tail. Many bobcats are also spotted, but Hawley said lots of Connecticut bobcats don't have a large amount of spots — further adding to the mountain lion confusion.
This day's bobcat started to wake up from its transport slumber. So before biologists could work on it, it was re-drugged using a long pole tipped with a syringe.
After about 15 minutes, the cat was under. Hawley pulled the bobcat out of the carrier and popped it on a long metal table.
Scientists removed a few bloated ticks and a small molar to get the cat's age. The head and neck were measured, DNA was taken, the cat's ears were tagged, and the animal was outfitted with a GPS collar, which will fall off automatically in 300 days.
"Most people think of bobcats as needing woods and living out in the middle of nowhere, but we're finding they're very adaptable animals," Hawley said.
So far, Connecticut's project has collared about 85 cats, tracking bobcats through rural forests — and even one in Connecticut's biggest city.
"It's pretty amazing. He'll go right into, almost, downtown Bridgeport and use some of the park land that they have in there," Hawley said.
Regionally, sightings are also on the rise. Vermont wildlife officials say bobcat populations are "healthy" and "well-distributed." And numbers are also up in Maine, increasing alongside the bobcat's bigger cousin, the Canada lynx.
Back in Connecticut, Hawley said bobcats, which in the mid-20th century were subject to a bounty, can now be seen in all towns.
The bobcat's teeth are shown following the procedure. The cat was outfitted with a GPS collar, which will ping location data on the cat. (Patrick Skahill/CPR)
Coordinates they're getting from those GPS collars are helping to pinpoint den sites, letting field biologists examine bobcat kittens in the wild and providing opportunities that otherwise would be nearly impossible.
All that GPS data also provides something else: insights into bobcat personalities.
Take, for example, another cat Hawley's team tagged in southern Connecticut.
"His home range was a vertical strip along the Connecticut River … and he would actually go out to islands on the river. Like, swimming out to the islands," Hawley said. "Most people think cats don't want to swim … so they're very interesting animals and they definitely have personalities."
As for the cat I met, it was released the next day — right back in the town where that coyote trapper accidentally picked it up.
Hawley said the bobcat will probably have her first litter this spring.
So if all goes well with her collar, it's possible biologists just may see this cat again — this time, with kittens.
This story was originally published by Connecticut Public Radio.
This segment aired on February 5, 2019.
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2017 Top 40 Under 40: Adrienne Cole Johnson, 39 | 2017 Top 40 Under 40 | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.
Having worked at Cornell University and on Capitol Hill — and currently with East End Richmond families — Adrienne Cole Johnson has proven her ability to connect with people of different statuses. "I feel like I've had several lives," she says.
At her full-time job at Peter Paul Development Center, Johnson helps disadvantaged families find basic resources: job training, transportation and safe housing. Similarly, with Artisan Cafe, a pop-up artists' market she co-founded with Melodie Short, Johnson raises the profiles of artists who don't have many connections to Richmond's art community, particularly women and people of color.
Johnson, who lives with husband Joshua and 5-year-old daughter Naomi in Chesterfield County, not far from her childhood neighborhood in the city's South Side, has found a spiritual home in the city's East End, where she's worked for four years.
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